Word: toured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Vaughn said yesterday he will take an "active role" in future deferment cases before the three-man Presidential Appeal Board. He will write letters to the board describing the circumstances in each case and urging board members to grant deferments until the end of the volunteer's overseas tour...
...money or renown. His latest oils, priced from $12,000 to $55,000, will almost certainly be snapped up. Critics and scholars besiege him for interviews. Artists trek to his doorstep. Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum will mount a full-scale retrospective of his work next September, which will tour London, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
...theme and tone, How I Won the War represents something of a departure for Lester, who at 35 is critically regarded as one of the best comedy directors in the business, a camera master of the tour de farce. From his first cinematic success with a pair of Beatle capers, A Hard Day's Night and Help! through The Knack and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, he has operated with a cheerful disregard for time, reality, clarity or sequence. His films, in more ways than one, cut loose...
...lives in a London suburb, Lester was born in Philadelphia, where he entered first grade at the age of three ("I was bright then, and it's been downhill since"). By 22, he had left a director's job at a local television station to tour Europe and Africa on $2 a day, coming to rest later at the BBC. There he was assigned to Peter Sellers' memorable madcap comedy series, The Goon Show, which in spirit at least resembled Lester's later movies. "We did sketches that had no beginnings and no endings," he recalls...
...speech was a tour de force in which Castro managed to touch on every single sore point of the solidarity conference. He delivered a stinging slap to the Soviets, denouncing their assistance to Brazil and Colombia. Capping it off, pounding on the lecturn and waving papers in the air, he said...